9.12.25 | Git history leaks skew SWE-bench scores, Bun Install's behind-the-scenes, website resembles an operating system
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 12, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
(01:26) - Behind the scenes of Bun Install
(02:44) - Why our website looks like an operating system
(03:49) - AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
(04:59) - Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
(06:16) - Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
(07:23) - From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban
(08:25) - Float Exposed
(09:38) - Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum
(10:56) - Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes
(12:05) - Outro
Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-benchhttps://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench/issues/465https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214670Behind the scenes of Bun Installhttps://bun.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-bun-installhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210850Why our website looks like an operating systemhttps://posthog.com/blog/why-oshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217269AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accountshttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/airpods-live-translation-eu-restricted/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210428Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’shttps://www.shloked.com/writing/claude-memoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214908Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"https://swiss.social/@swaldorff/115186445638788782https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45216805From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone banhttps://gothamist.com/news/from-burner-phones-to-decks-of-cards-nyc-teens-are-adjusting-to-the-smartphone-banhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211527Float Exposedhttps://float.exposed/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217415Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentumhttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/samsungs-us-market-share-apple-rivalry-foldable-phones.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209389Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabeteshttps://www.wired.com/story/no-more-injections-crispr-offers-new-hope-for-treating-diabetes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211596
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9.11.25 | Museum visit prioritizes experience, Term.everything enables GUI apps in terminal, Pontevedra, Spain limits urban traffic
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 11, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
(01:44) - Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
(02:52) - Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
(04:09) - KDE launches its own distribution
(05:22) - ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
(06:31) - Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal
(07:36) - Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
(08:40) - DOOMscrolling: The Game
(09:40) - Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
(10:55) - Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
(12:07) - Outro
I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screenshttps://sethpurcell.com/writing/screens-in-museums/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199931Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminalhttps://github.com/mmulet/term.everythinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181535Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/made-for-people-not-cars-reclaiming-european-cities/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195520KDE launches its own distributionhttps://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1037166/caa6979c16a99c9e/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45204393ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client accesshttps://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/developer-modehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45199713Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legalhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/court-rejects-verizon-claim-that-selling-location-data-without-consent-is-legal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45206567Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority securedhttps://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115184350819592476https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209366DOOMscrolling: The Gamehttps://ironicsans.ghost.io/doomscrolling-the-game/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205232Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inferencehttps://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200925Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shellhttps://jiratui.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198481
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 10, 2025.(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - iPhone Air
(01:37) - We all dodged a bullet
(02:37) - Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
(03:47) - E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
(04:54) - I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
(06:16) - Memory Integrity Enforcement
(07:31) - Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear
(08:40) - US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
(09:55) - Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
(11:10) - Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement
(12:24) - Outro
iPhone Airhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/introducing-iphone-air-a-powerful-new-iphone-with-a-breakthrough-design/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186015We all dodged a bullethttps://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183029Claude now has access to a server-side container environmenthttps://www.anthropic.com/news/create-fileshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182381E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screenshttps://spectrum.ieee.org/e-paper-display-modoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185756I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memoryhttps://joshfonseca.com/blogs/animal-crossing-llmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45192655Memory Integrity Enforcementhttps://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186265Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappearhttps://www.rockefeller.edu/news/38120-immunotherapy-drug-eliminates-aggressive-cancers-in-clinical-trial/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188945US High school students' scores fall in reading and mathhttps://apnews.com/article/naep-reading-math-scores-12th-grade-c18d6e3fbc125f12948cc70cb85a520ahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182657Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the officehttps://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-send-employees-back-to-office-rto-remote-work-2025-9https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45184432Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlementhttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-donehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179304
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9.9.25 | NPM packages compromised, Signal backups secured, iPhone as a dumbphone
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 9, 2025.(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
(01:31) - Signal Secure Backups
(02:35) - iPhone dumbphone
(03:44) - No adblocker detected
(04:54) - Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
(06:07) - Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
(07:11) - Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASML
(08:16) - Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
(09:32) - Clankers Die on Christmas
(10:46) - The Storm Hits the Art Market
(12:04) - Outro
NPM debug and chalk packages compromisedhttps://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromisedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657Signal Secure Backupshttps://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170515iPhone dumbphonehttps://stopa.io/post/297https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171200No adblocker detectedhttps://maurycyz.com/misc/ads/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45176206Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOShttps://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168953Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVGhttps://kube.io/blog/liquid-glass-css-svg/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174297Mistral AI raises 1.7B€, enters strategic partnership with ASMLhttps://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-raises-1-7-b-to-accelerate-technological-progress-with-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45178041Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?https://zilliz.com/blog/will-amazon-s3-vectors-kill-vector-databases-or-save-themhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169624Clankers Die on Christmashttps://remyhax.xyz/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169275The Storm Hits the Art Markethttps://news.artnet.com/market/intelligence-report-storm-2025-2684512https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45175628
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9.8.25 | MacBook screen hinge sensor, Claude Code modernizes kernel driver, GPT-5 excels in search
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 8, 2025.(00:00) - Intro
(00:20) - The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
(01:23) - Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
(02:42) - GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
(03:56) - I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
(05:14) - Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)
(06:25) - Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
(07:38) - What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)
(08:56) - Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)
(10:05) - The demo scene is dying, but that's alright
(11:20) - Formatting code should be unnecessary
(12:30) - Outro
The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hingehttps://twitter.com/samhenrigold/status/1964428927159382261https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45158968Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driverhttps://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163362GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at searchhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152284I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3Dhttps://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-09-07-bye-intel-hi-amd-9950x3d/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155986Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/keeping-secrets-out-of-logs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160774Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatchhttps://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/03/garmin-satellite-smartwatch/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118286What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)https://lists.ding.net/othersite/isoc-internet-history/2009/oct/msg00000.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45156826Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)https://www.trendingbuffalo.com/life/uncle-steves-buffalo/everything-from-1991-radio-shack-ad-now/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45161816The demo scene is dying, but that's alrighthttps://www.datagubbe.se/sceneherit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162803Formatting code should be unnecessaryhttps://maxleiter.com/blog/formattinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163043
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